Transparent VB Controls in Presentation

[Guest]

I have tried to put some controls on a slide (I tried an image control
button, and a label control ) and then make then transparent. It looks okay
on the slide , but when I go to slide show, the controls are no longer
transparent. There's nothing on them, just the background color. Is there
any way to make one of these controls transparent during the slideshow? I
can't make then -not visible-, because I need them to stay on top of another
button to prevent clicking on that button in certain areas. I'm trying to
have a big giant command button cover the whole screen and then cover up
parts of it so it's not clickable there.

 

[Guest]

Why do you need controls? Why not use regular shapes? They cover things up
just as well as controls. Note that transparency works a little differently
in different versions of PowerPoint, so you depending on the version, you
might have a little difficulty if you make the cover-up shape totally
transparent.
--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author o f _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Guest]

If I can use regular shapes, I'd be happy to. However, every time I put a
shape over it, when I run the slide show, the command button pops out from
under the shape. I can click -- order--> send to back -- until the cows come
home, that comman button just doesn't care. That's why I was trying to use a
control, because the command button won't pop out in front of antoher
control - some kind of professional courtesy thing, I guess!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

If I can use regular shapes, I'd be happy to. However, every time I put a
shape over it, when I run the slide show, the command button pops out from
under the shape. I can click -- order--> send to back -- until the cows come
home, that comman button just doesn't care. That's why I was trying to use a
control, because the command button won't pop out in front of antoher
control - some kind of professional courtesy thing, I guess!

I think David's point was just that: command buttons ARE controls. So again, why
use them? What do you need to do with a command button that you can't do with a
shape that has a run macro action setting assigned to it?